Jeremiah 22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth… Why is prosperity so perverse? I. BECAUSE PROSPERITY OFTEN TENDS TO HARDNESS OF HEART. II. BECAUSE PROSPERITY OFTEN GROWS PROUD AND SELF-SUFFICIENT. Religion and the Bible are well enough for the poor, who need comfort, but what do they want with it, who have "more than heart could wish"? III. BECAUSE PROSPERITY IS OFTEN IMMERSED IN CARES OR PLEASURES. There is no room for religion. The voices of the counting house, the mart of commerce, the shop; or the voices of the pleasure takers, who call men to partake of their pastimes, so fill their ear that they will not obey the voice of God. "I have my nest in the cedars." (Anon.) Parallel Verses KJV: I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. |
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